Rilke

A friend was telling me that she has been asked to lead a commitment ceremony in an upcoming marriage between her two close friends. She’s been meditating on what she’ll say and today it came to her. I was tidaled by her blessing. It was profoundly simple: "May you continue to get to know each other." Wait for it, wait for it. Awestruck, I stared back at my friend with my ears (we were on the phone) and slowly over the course of a minute or so I began to receive it, and the corners of my lips curled into a big smile. How special, indeed. It’s simple enough, but it really nails it. It reminded me of a Rilke quote that just passed my desk that calls partners in relationship “guardians of each other’s solitude.” How beautiful. How sacred More on that one surely; that’s an idea I’ll probably be absorbing for the next 197 years, but I wanted to share.